Santa Ana Mountain Lions (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Santa Ana Mountain Lions

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A mountain lion, F92, keeps watch while her juvenile cubs feed at a bait sight in 2014. Busy highways and growing urbanization in the area threaten pumas in Southern California and have led to their genetic decay, a UC Davis study found.

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